55 Distil Networks Testimonials

"Distil revealed that roughly 30% of our traffic was comprised of bad bots. We’re now blocking over 80% of that, and may decide to get more aggressive with our settings. Distil’s hands-off, proactive approach saves our company two to three man-days per month and is much more effective than the ‘whack-a-mole’ we were playing writing F5 iRules. We’ve also prevented at least three outages, and freed up 25% of our F5 LTM capacity."

“None of the other solutions was able to block bots as well as Distil does. Distil leverages a strong network effect, which is really powerful.”

"Across all of our 20+ newspaper sites, Distil Networks keeps our content and data safe and improves our content delivery."

"Competitors use bots to perform an ‘Add To Cart’ action, then scrape for price. If we drop our price to $1.99, an hour later it could be $1.98 at another site. Then the competitor’s product appears higher in search engine price sorts. Boom—we just lost a sale. Also, those types of queries represent a high computational hit, taxing our backend servers and impacting site performance. Distil has made our lives so much easier."

"We have a handful of competitors that cause us a lot of headaches. With Distil, we’ve stopped them from scraping our data, which protects our competitive advantage. In addition, we’ve reduced the load by 22%, and as a result, our customers experience faster response times."

"GuideStar is the world’s largest source of information of nonprofit organizations. We have collected and curated billions of data points on nonprofit organizations and we needed a way to ensure our data was being used in a way that is consistent with our vision of driving social innovation and change. Distil has the ability to fingerprint bots, which gives us the ability to block by signature, not just by IP address."

"After spending more than a year cultivating our own in-house scraping prevention solution we realized there were well funded scrapers who could adapt faster than we could stop them. The Distil Networks team continually works to ensure that as scrapers change they’re right there changing with them."

"Before Distil we’d look at logs, try to find patterns, and block IP addresses, but it was an impossible task because the bot operators kept changing and masking IPs. We were spending over 20 hours a month trying to manually fix the problem. Distil gave me peace of mind. I know that I don't have to worry about bad bots and their impact on our business. I'm able to sleep at night. That's the biggest benefit of all."

"If someone scores a goal, we get that information in real time, and it's automated in our backend system, and the actual orders are automated as well, which means that we can operate really, really quickly. And it cost us money to operate those services. What we were finding is, people were using our websites to harvest those odds data with bots and they can use that information to their advantage elsewhere without paying us for the feed.”

"Distil has allowed me to focus somewhere else. It's totally eradicated our bot issues. Sometimes, I forget it's in place because it's doing such a good job."

"With Distil, we increased our uptime from 99.6 to 99.9%, reduced infrastructure costs and eliminated costly bot-driven API calls. Bots be gone!"

"Distil helped us greatly reduce transaction fraud and account takeovers."

"Competitive data mining for ticket price and inventory was a constant threat. Not only was Distil was able to help us identify and block the bots performing this scraping, they also helped us greatly reduce transaction fraud and account takeovers."

“One scraper had built their entire business around scraping one of our airline customers. In an attempt to evade detection, they’d change cloud providers and cycle through hundreds of IP addresses. Distil was still able to block them outright, because Distil isn’t based on blocking IP addresses, but rather on machine learning algorithms and device fingerprinting. With Distil, it’s like having an expert data science team on hand for frontline support. These guys live and breathe bots every day, so they’re really good at solving the issues impacting our airline customers.”

"Some bot operators interject scripts into their code to mimic human behavior. Others will circumvent the web product page and go directly to the API behind it. Before Distil, bot blocking was eating up 20% of team resources, only 30% effective, and impacting the team’s quality of life. Distil lets us granularly control questionable traffic or simply block it all."